Quotes About Psychology

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Fear-based messaging will never lead to a long-term effective strategy because it is not the way we are wired.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.

Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

Arbitrage human nature. It's not going to change any time soon.

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice.

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Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.

Ignoraba que el asco es una de las formas de la obsesión y que, si deseamos algo, es más fácil pensar en ello con asco que no pensar.

Ik weet dat de psychologie ons modellen kan geven. Daardoor kun je leren verbanden te begrijpen en patronen te zien. En dat helpt, zeker. Maar het meeste zullen we toch nooit kunnen begrijpen. Het leven is zo paradoxaal. Wat er met ons gebeurt en hoe we daarmee omgaan, het verdriet en de dood, de blijdschap en de liefde. Geen kennis in de wereld kan jouw eenzaamheid genezen of jou bevrijden van je grootste angst

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

Grandiosity is always a cover for despair.

The ego is our self-love turned into self-hatred.

Rage turned outward is called rage. Rage turned inward is called ulcers and cancer and things like that. The unhealthiest thing you can do with anger is to deny you have it.

Excess fat is not just inert cellular tissue. It is a repository of twisted, distorted thoughts and feelings that didn't have anywhere else to go. If you remove the fat tissue but do not remove its psychic cause, then the fat might go but the causal imprint remains. And the imprint, in time, will attract more substance with which to materially express itself.

Por mediación de diversas técnicas terapéuticas, llegué a estar muy al tanto de mis propias neurosis, pero eso no necesariamente las exorcizaba.